The Towerlight, October 6, 1978

tl19781006-000 "VOL. LXXII No. 5 Patnode predicts Hughes defeat Dr. Jerry Patnode, the marketing specialist who left many of the state's political pundits with egg on their faces by picking underdog Harry Hughes to win the Democratic gubernatorial primary, has made Republican J. Glenn Beall his pick as probable winner in the November general election. Patnode said his survey for the general election is ""still in the commputer,"" but he's ""almost sure he it will come out."" However Patnode feels the situation could change, and Hughes could win if he can show the people \ of hte state what he stands for. Patnode feels Hughes is laying back and failing to project an image While Beall is hitting hard on the issues. He said Hughes, ""can't rely On the fact that this is a Predominantly Democratic state."" ""The key factor in the November election is media exposure,"" Pat-node said. ""Hughes has strayed to the secondary issue in his recent comments to the media. Property tax reform, government spending and employment are the main issues. Education is third or fourth in the line of importance, as is the Prison."" Patnode contemplates more re-search before the general election, and feels that a hustling s Hughes effort could change the campaign in the hectic weeks between now and November 7. Patnode based his choice in the Primary campaign on the marketing rearch system he uses and teaches for business. He picked winner Hughes, while the state's pollsters and political insiders were almost invariably wrong. Patnode, who teaches marketing here at Towson State and at Loyola College, said his system is not just a Marketing device, ""but a behavioral scienCe. We used questions on the key issues of the campaign as well as the candidates' physical ap- Pearances and attitudes. It's very similar to some of the marketing projects I did with some Loyola and Towson students for Union Trust and some other banks on their 24-hour tellers."" Patnode and his graduate stu-dents at Loyola mailed out 1000 questionnaires to try and find ""what Marylanders want and need."" Approximately 400 responSes were received and used as the basis for Patnode's prediction. By matching the candidates characteristics with the attitudes evident in these responses, Patnode arrived at a ""probable choice."" That choice was winner Harry Hughes. WSON STATE UNIVERSITY Renovation planned Renovation of Van Bokkelen Hall is scheduled to begin in June 1979. See page 6 for story. TL Photo by Mike Ciesielski Election 78 Sachs denounces house counsel role by Patrick Casey Stephen Sachs, Democratic cand-idate for Attorney General of Maryland, said during a campus visit Friday he does not believe the Attorney General's office should be the ""automatic house counsel"" for Towson State or other state agencies. The Attorney General's office represents the University in any legal dispute. ""I see the office as not just doing what it's told by the state agencies, including the university system,"" Sachs said. ' Asked about claims of discrimina-tion against the University, Skits said he would have tb txamine each (rise and determine whether the University stands on proper legal ground. ""If a ciairn of discrimination were valid, I wouldn't hesitate to say 'you're wrong',"" Sachs said, ""The first job of a lawyer for a public institution is to call it as he sees it. A public lawyer has a special responsibility."" Sachs said if he found the University actually discriminating, he would ""give legal advice"" that it change its practices, but the University is under no obligation to folloyv that advice. HEW requests loan repayment (CPS)--U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano told a congressional subcommittee this summer there were 300,000 former college stu-dents who had not yet repaid their federally-insured loans. But Cali-fano swore he'd get them to repay. Now the first results of Califano's collection program have been released, and the program seems to be working. Last year, for example, HEW caught an average of 270 defaulters en three loan programs--the Gua-ranteed Student Loan, the National Direct Student Loan, and Health Education Assistance Loans--each week. This year, Califano reports HEW is concerting defaults to repayments at a rate of 1200 per week. The increase is largely due to an expanded federal collection staff. This month, when two of HEW's ten mgional offices begin using profes-sional collection agencies, the rate of conversion should increase even more. Credit is also due to Project Cross-Check, a program which uses computers to match HEW's list of defaulters with the social security numbers of government employees. In its test phase, the project turned up over 300 HEW employees who had not yet repaid their federally-insured student loans. The second phase, which is under way now, will be checking out all federal employees. HEW estimates some 13,000 persons could be involved. In its third and final phase, Project Cross-Check will look for defaulters in the ranks of the military. But that's not all. Bob Wilson of HEW's inspector General's office, says the agency will soon be mounting an intensive hunt for non-federal employees who are in default under the three loan programs. He thinks there may be more than 340,000 defaulters across the nation. What then if HEW finds"" a defaulter who still refuses to pay? In teh past, HEW was relatively timid in bringing defaulters to court. From 1972 through Sept., 1977, it referred only some 500 cases to the U.S. Attorney's office. Those days are apparently over. Over 1500 cases have been referred just since last October. Sachs said if the University were taken to court, where the Attorney General's office would be its only iepresentative, ""If there is any honest defense, then it's the Attorney General's responsibility to offer that defense. But when he can't do it in good conscience, he should my so in coart . when the state is clearly wrong, it is the Attorney General's duty to say so."" Sachs said this position is consistent with his campaign pledge to make the office of the Attorney General politically independent. Sachs was on campus to speak before a political science class. October 6, 1978 Additional lighting proposed Danger sighted by Katherine Dunn Mary Lee Farlow, director of residence; Lt. Bob Ryan, of campus police ;- and John Shehan, president of the SGA, will meet this week to discuss increasing the amount of lighting on campus. Ryan, head of the campus police crime prevention program, said students brought to his attention a ""deficiency in lighting"" on campus. The complaints were prompted by the assault on a female student at 2 a.m. September 17 near the circular driveway at Glen Esk. Farlow; Shehan; Mary Burke, president of the residence council; Jim Pickering of residence; and Sgt. Stephen Murphy of campus police, made a walking tour of the campus on September 27 to uncover poorly lighted areas. They found badly lighted locations on the corner of Smith Hall near the Glen and the Union, around Glen Esk, Lida Lee Tall, and between Newell and Richmond Halls. Shehan said he wants the county to improve lighting along Cross Campus Drive and Osler Drive. Only every other light is turned on there, he said, but he wants all of them on. The main problem, said Ryan and Shehan, is near Ward Hall, Glen Esk and Prettyman Hall where four or five lights are out due to a broken cable. Ryan said some of the lights on campus are owned by TSU and others are rented from the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company. The TSU lights must be repaired by the univer-sity's maintenance crew, but BG&E is responsible for fixing the rented ones. Dick Butler, assistant director of the physical plant which is responsi-ble for maintenance, said there is a problem getting BG&E to fix broken lights. BG&E would take ""an unrea-sonable amount of time, sometimes three or four days"" to come out, Butler said. ""Sometimes we would even have to call them back,"" he said. All of the BG&E lights, including the ones from the broken cable, have been repaired and are now on, said Shehan. ""There is no problem"" with BG&E any more,"" said Butler, :'now that we've made them aware of what can happen"" when the lights are out. Butler is also responsible for seeing there is enough lighting so students can walk around campus safely at night, said Ryan. If there is not enough light, it is Butler's respon-sibility to set up temporary lighting as long as he has enough money in his budget, Ryan said. ""It all comes down to money,"" said Ryan. No standards have been set for how much light is safe, but, Ryan said, there is ""a certain understanding within the building community"" that different illuminations are used in dif-ferent areas. , The architect usually decides the type and amount of lighting to use around his or her building, but this light is primarily to show off the building not to make it safer, said Ryan. Vandal chased Crime report by Katherine Dunn Thomas Manzitti, 22, was ar-rested Saturday night after leading police on an 'automobile chase around campus and down York Road. Manzitti, a former student, was one of two men caught throwing nicks at clean-up workers after the football game at the Towson Center. Saturday night. The campus police chased them down Auburn Drive to Cross Campus Drive and York Road. They lost him on York Road but they Tuft leaves dining services by Evelyn Hoopes Brooke Tuft, who has worked almost three years for Dining Services in every area from food production to operations directoh and most recently as catering manager of Servomation, said she is leaving the university ""for a variety of reasons in the best interest of myself and the people I work for."" ""It's been a great opportunity to work here. I've enjoyed the campus and especially the stu-dents,"" said Tuft. She plans to take three or four weeks off before applying for other jobs, possibly something in person-nel work. The set-up crew, a spin-off of the , catering and auxiliary workers, was originated by Tuft in September 1976 after the need emerged. She worked for the football camp that summer and asked a few of the players, whom she knew needed jobs, to work on the newly formed crew. The crew is largely composed of athletes because they have the two essential ingredients needed in this type of job: ""strength and discipline,"" said Tuft. ""I never had to worry about them. Somehow they always managed to get things done,"" she added. A veteran member of the set-up crew said, ""With Brooke around, things were ustially well organized and we got our jobs done quickly."" Tuft said the most enjoyable part of her job was working in catering where she could use her imagination to create both food and atmosphere. Bob Browning, a former employee of Ogden food services, and owner of a Pappy's restaurant for seven years, has been appointed by Servomation to replace Tuft. He will work with concessions, catering and the Pub Al Walsh, direCtor of dining services, said he thinks Tuft was dissatisfied working under a private contractor like Servomation. Broke Tuft, former Servomation catering manager, has resigned after three years with Dining Services. ept the license plate number. The pplice checked the car, went to the home of the owner and positively identified Manzitti as the driver of the car. Manzitti was arrested and charged with running stop signs, reckless driving, speeding and four charges of assault. Three students were caught Saturday might damaging light fixtures on the patio near Newell Hall. They broke the arm off one of the benches and kicked light fixtures. There were no arrests. The three will be turned over to the Dean of Students for Action. They will probably have to pay for damages, � Capt. Greg Roepke of campus police said. Roepke esti-mated the damage at $100 to $150. Four cars were broken into last week on campus lots. Among the items stolen were a CB radio car antenna and a car telephone answering machine.' The tires of two cars were slashed and the paint Was scraped off. The value was estimated at $400. The parking gate at lot five near I,inthicum Hall was broken off on September 28. It was repaired that day and the next day it was broken 'again. There was a false fire alarm in Newell Hall Tuesday morning. All charges have been dropped against Terry Hasselbach, part-time business administration instructor who was arrested September 22. Correction Towerlight incorrectly reported . last week the Re-accreditation Committee representatives met with Dr. Shaw. The members met last Friday with 'Dr. David Dixon, President of , Montclair State Col-lege. Self-study wins praise at Friday meeting by Susanne Stumpf Dr. David D. W. Dixon, chairman of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools team praised the 200-page draft self-study report at the meeting with acting President Joseph Cox, Dr. Norman Sheets, dean of academic affairs and Dr. Robin Hatcher, associate professor of English, in Philadelphia last Friday. Towson State has improved since 1968. the last time Middle States re-accredited it, Dixon said at the meeting. In an interview Monday, Co, said that Dixon was impressed with the degree of participation in the self-study by faculty members. The ten chapter report, based on one of the University's Goals, revealed some strengths and weak-nesses. The report showed that faculty members are interested in helping students choose a major before declaring it in their sopho-more year. The faculty wondered if the University's facilities are as continued on page 5 Only if the area is a high crime sec-tion is more lighting added, said Ryan. He said more lights are used around schools to prevent vandalism. Butler is trying to keep a close watch on the lights so that any broken ones can be fixed as soon as possible, said Ryan. He said the BG&E lights are old and there are ""a lot of problems with thTemhe.""lighting problem ""is complex; there is no easy solution,"" Ryan said. John Suter, director of campus planning, said he requested $127,000 in next year's budget for east campus security lighting. Suter said he would like to remove all lights rented from BG&E and replace them with TSU lights. The project would,involve in-stalling about 50 lights near Stephens and Richmond Halls, Suter said. He said it would be cheaper to own the fixtures than to rent them. Suter said he would also like to have about 10 additional lights installed around Richmond, Newell and Pret-tyman Halls. Shehan said he would like to see new lights put in by parking lot six near the Tower, between the Tower and Ward Hall, at the bridge between Bur-dick Field and Osler Drive, and be-tDwreeen. the Union and Cross Campus Drive. Sutet said he can see no reason for lights at the bridge 'Or between the Union and Cross Campus Drive because there are well-lighted alter-nate routes near these paths. No lights are planned for lot six because there is a program in the works to resurface that lot and it would be top costly to resurface it and build lights, Suter said. Installing lights in this area would be expensive because a new cable would have to be installed, Suter said. With the completion of Education Street, Suter said, the interior of the campus will be well lighted. ""We are concerned because the east campus lighting program has been in the budget request for at least three years but it has not been approved yet,"" Suter said. He said he feels the request is justified because it is intended for a paart of campus that houses 1,250 students, more than half of them women. Suter said he feels that the Depart-ment of State Planning, which has the final say in this budget matter, has no intention of granting the request for money for the project. He is hopeful, he said, that once the members of the department realize the problems with lighting on campus they will grant the request. Student dies Peter Gorman, rugby team captain and senior class secretary, died Sun-day night in an automobile accident. (Seepage 14.) in this Issue Promising Boater: If he can stay healthy, wing Danny Casteel is loilded with potential page 13 The Center Rocks: Little Feat plays for the admiring masses during this week's Towson Center con-certs page 11 Bursting the Bubble: The econ. prof. shows us some of the why and wherefores of inflation�first of the ""Marketplace"" series page 3 Sub Par: A number of colleges acmss the country pay their student employees below the minimum wage�CPS reports page 7 Off the Wire: College Press Service returns to Towerlight with coverage of the campus scene nationwide. "